Will Smith Eyes Sci-Fi Superhero Tale Brilliance

Will Smith is targeting Universal and Legendary Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of Marcus Sakey’s sci-fi/superhero novel Brilliance. The Wrap reports that Smith would play the lead role of Federal Agent Nick Cooper in the big screen version, to be directed by Julius Onah with a script by David Koepp.

The original book, published last year, is officially described as follows:

In Wyoming, a little girl reads peoples darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. Theyre called brilliants, and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way. Nick Cooper is among them; a federal agent, Cooper has gifts rendering him exceptional at hunting terrorists. His latest target may be the most dangerous man alive, a brilliant drenched in blood and intent on provoking civil war. But to catch him, Cooper will have to violate everything he believes inand betray his own kind.